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SURAT Hospital is asking the community to get creative and help name its newest building.
Director of Nursing Skye Mackenzie has started a name suggestion poll and is welcoming members of the community to join in.
The hospital opened its doors on Wednesday to give visitors a chance to tour the new rooms and meet with the future residents over some coffee and cake.
The state-funded extension will provide six beds to aged care clients in the area, with five of those beds already filled.
Ms Mackenzie said everyone in the Surat community was very excited for the new building.
"It will be a great asset to the town and will give us a chance to create a home like environment for our residents," Ms Mackenzie said.
Lifelong Surat resident Unita Butler, who visits the hospital every week to see her friends, said the building has turned out great.
"It's fantastic," Unita said.
"Looking from the outside I didn't expect it to be what it is inside, but it's lovely."
Once the building officially opens on May 9, Surat Hospital employees hope to start a community garden project and welcome any donations to this cause.
For any further information on getting involved in the name suggestion poll or to make donations to the new facility, phone the Surat Hospital on 4626 5166.